Literary Companions Quotes

Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

As with companions so with books. We may choose those which will make us better, more intelligent, more appreciative of the good and the beautiful in the world, or we may choose the trashy, the vulgar, the obscene, which will make us feel as though we've been 'wallowing in the mire.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

These books are my friends, my companions.

Books are always good company if you have the right sort.

Books are ever available friends, ready to serve you at will.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.